Medical Resources & Research
Lipoedema UK is committed to promoting education about Lipoedema. For information and links to medical resources and research related to the condition, see below.
The Lipedema Foundation has published a useful clinician’s guide, which contains highlights on common presentation, physical examination, patient history and common treatments. Like Lipoedema UK, the Lipedema Foundation believes that every person needs a timely diagnosis. To download Lipedema Foundation’s Clinician’s Guide to Lipedema, click here.
The Lipedema Foundation LEGATO library is a comprehensive and up-to-date archive of research publications specifically related to Lipoedema. Lipoedema research is scarce and sometimes difficult to locate even with modern internet tools. The LEGATO library organises scholarly works, functioning as digital research infrastructure, making the data more accessible to the women with Lipoedema and the research community that serves them.
The NHS website has a dedicated Lipoedema page here.
Lipoedema UK has partnered with the RCGP to produce an eLearning course on Lipoedema. This course is free for members of the RCGP. Non-members can also enrol for the course online, which costs £25. For more information about the course, click here.
Wounds UK’s Best Practice Guidelines: The Management of Lipoedema is available online. To download a copy, click here.
For an overview on the guidance from NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) on liposuction for chronic Lipoedema, see the NICE (2022) Liposuction for Chronic Lipoedema – Interventional Procedures Guidance [IPG721].
To read the PCDS’s overview of the condition, click here.